lots of pain in the world but sometimes you stumble on a stranger’s obsessive wikipedia table. michelangelo had the sistine chapel, this guy had the “guess who” article. perhaps both sacred

Started using anki again for German vocab which I'm really happy about, but directional and positional verbs are really kicking my ass rn

Spent today drafting a pre-print, and this evening eating malatang, watching taskmaster and playing Baba is you 🥰

Have I told you the black hole drinking game? The rules are: (a) watch a documentary involving black holes (b) when someone says, "not even light", take a drink. Easy! ("Not Even Light" was my working title for "The Dead Star" 😁)

Don't forget: if Earth, Wind, and Fire see their shadows tonight we get 6 more weeks of September

Could bandle be my new obsession? Am I just happy I got it in one? Who's to say Bandle #1131 1/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ Found: 4/5 (80%) Current Streak: 1 (max 1) #Bandle bandle.app

Maybe this is the year I learn not to play every song I learn on guitar with the same strumming pattern

Back from a conference and feeling super grateful for my maths friends - may I never be too caught up thinking about the future to enjoy spending time with them

Was great to be a guest on un-natural numbers again - this time I talked about some fun tessellations!

I'll be at @tmip.bsky.social later this week, which gave me the perfect excuse to finally soft launch my YouTube channel, where I learn to be a better maths communicator by analysing some of my favourite YouTube creators! youtu.be/1UbjqEWc__0?...

People love to ask "oh you eat vegan? Do you miss chicken?" No!! I miss easy access to taro flavour bubble tea!!

I want maths papers to come with a wine pairing. Or maybe a cheese? Or recommended background music? Other whimsical suggestions are also encouraged.

Apollo 11. Rarely seen shot of Eagle, the Moon and Earthrise, taken on this day, July 21, 1969. Mike Collin's alternate photo is extremely well known, but this one - shown remastered and cropped - is an absolute beauty!

Runs up and hands you some good looking math books

Unbelievably real:

Wake up. New definition of “bijection” just dropped.

In a shocking turn of events come and hear me talk about something finite!

"Labubu" is French for "the small injury."

I've just rediscovered the eyemaze flashgames which I spent an unreasonable amount of time being absolutely baffled by as a kid, experiencing wild amounts of nostalgia

Happy taskmaster finale / finding out Series 20 cast day to all who celebrate.

Had a lot of fun with everything I read in June, started off with Greg Egans 'Shilds ladder', then Victoria Coren Mitchell's 'For Richer for Poorer' and nearly done with Terry Pratchett's 'Mort'.

A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Carlos G. Menchi)

Was shocked at how early (1632) a painting I saw this quasi speech bubble on! No idea if I'm simply underestimating this or this is a particularly early example but interesting in either case.

I'm four citations deep trying to find one tiny definition this is the worst set theorist bingo I've ever played

I am enjoying the bingo sheet Easter egg in this week's episode of taskmaster a little too much I think

Off to watch Carmen tonight!! Honestly one of the things that's been on my bucket list for the longest

I think I experienced some sort of mathematicians siren call ... anyway if anyone has tips on learning how to solve Rubik's cubes I'm now the proud owner of a 3x3

Instructions for Having a Soul

Several friends recommended this to me and now I've finished I can understand why - not a light read but truly unlike much I've ever read before.

I think spending my childhood listening to Brian Eno on long car journeys has primed me to be absolutely hypnotised by the mini metro soundtrack

Finally took myself to a cafe to finish the last few chapters of orbital - big fan, feels very different to anything I've read in a while

Globe Safety xkcd.com/3086

Played my first two rounds of blood on the clocktower tonight and I can already tell I'm going to be so insane about this game

A new adaptation of pride and prejudice is in production, guess this means I need to circulate the cheat sheet of version came out in what year to EVERYONE I KNOW because my "in the 1995 adaptation..." monologues become too insufferable

Let G be a group, but let it just be. Don't do anything about it.